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Whoa, bud. That's liberal thinking if I ever heard it. Fact: NY fans pay for their team be it through tickets or cable fees. Why should their money have to subsidize people in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee or Minnesota who won't? Secondly, money does not guarantee the World Series. The Yankees have been there 2 out of the last four and lost, they got beat by the Angels one year in the ALDS and the Sox last year.

The Yankees are learning their lesson about buying everything in site. The passed on Beltran and wouldn't open up the budget at deadline nor would they trade the franchise future.

see my # 63...and to prove my point that the Yankees are a cartel component..look at what happened with the cable shut- out the last few years..Cablevision has 2 mil+ subcribers..pays YES $2.month per subcriber...thought he average Yankee rating on the system is about 250,000..Cabalevision wanted to make YES a premium channel..IOW..you only pay if you want to see the games..Yankees refused..escalating sports rights are the biggest cause of ever-inccreasing cable bills..and soon the tipping point will be reached..

Whoa, bud. That's liberal thinking if I ever heard it. Fact: NY fans pay for their team be it through tickets or cable fees. Why should their money have to subsidize people in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee or Minnesota who won't? Secondly, money does not guarantee the World Series. The Yankees have been there 2 out of the last four and lost, they got beat by the Angels one year in the ALDS and the Sox last year. The Yankees are learning their lesson about buying everything in site. The passed on Beltran and wouldn't open up the budget at deadline nor would they trade the franchise future

MLB is a protected business, not a free market.

The number of fans in the stands does not (especially for the Yanks) equate with the amount of money they can spend on players. TV and Radio bring much more money than attendence ever could. Wanna put it on a fair basis (and I do not advocate this), allow the teams to only spend attendence money on salaries.

If MLB were allowed to be a 'free market', then we would only have teams in LA, SF, NY, Houston, Dallas, Boston etc. Boy that would be fun watching LA and the Yanks play the series year after year. Hey we won 20 World Series in a row... but there are only 6 teams.

The owners and the players both have screwed the financial end of the game up. Now we have the 'new ballparks' which cater to the high rollers (luxury boxes), the ordinary fan cannot buy a good seat in the good markets. Try to buy a seat at Bush other than the upper decks. I used to be able to buy Lodge Reserved seats, pretty good seats for about $12-$15. Now they are $29 and they are all held by corporations. Every seat in the lower decks are season ticket holders, and 95% of those are corporate purchases. Hell they even reduced the bleacher seats a few years ago. The NEW BUSH STADIUM will have fewer seats than the existing one. Think the owners have the ordinary joe fan in mind?